One Russian blogger has spotted a something looking like a crash site in the wild forests near St. Petersburg. So he decided to travel to that place and see it by his own eyes. After a long journey through the woods he found the AN-8 plane which was landed in the middle of the forest and now stays abandoned. The reasons why it had to this are unknown.

First there’s the pavement and car as mentioned, next to a “P” sign (parking I presume).
Then there is a green post in front of the plane (lamp? info sign?)
Then in some of the shots, there appears to be a building of some sort on the left with a green door.

Looks like either a dumped plane, or a historical/memorial site to me…no way it’s a crash.

it just might be some small abandoned military airfield. Soviet times they were built everywhere just in case. To hide them from bad bad americans they were made look like road in woods. In google map pics seems that there is runway before plain. And plain is ready to take off. It cant be made by crash because then airplain tail should be towards open area.

[…] English Russia recently published a report on a “crashed” plane in the Russian forest near St. Petersburg. The plane in question is an AN-8 light military transport aircraft of a type which was used by the Soviets up until the 1970s. […]

That plane was not flown into the forrest, it would not have wings or propellers. It was parked there a long time ago and the forrest grew around it. Also it would have to have flown in backwards as someone else pointed out.

Look at all the pics where you can see the front wheels: isn’t there a steel rod, the kind used to tow planes around, attached to the front wheels? It would certainly “crash” trying to land with one of those things attached. Probably the reason why it landed backward…

Regardless of the story … If no one else is gonna put it to good use, I’ll take it! 🙂
I’m sure some of the USAF personnel around here would flip when it was flying over one of the many bases in the area, lol.